Maria Lind is a curator, writer and educator from Stockholm. She is currently serving as the Counselor of Culture at the embassy of Sweden, Moscow. She worked as the director of Stockholm’s Tensta Konsthall (2011-2018), as the artistic director of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, as the director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA (2008-2010) and as the director of IASPIS in Stockholm (2005-2007). From 2002 to 2004, she was the director of Kunstverein München and in 1998, the co-curator of Europe’s itinerant biennial, Manifesta 2, in Luxembourg. In 2015, she curated “Future Light” for the 1st Vienna Bienniale, and in 2019, she co-curated the Art Encounters Biennial in Timișoara, Romania. She has taught widely since the early 1990s, including as a professor of artistic research at the Art Academy in Oslo (2015-2018). She is currently a lecturer at Konstfack’s CuratorLab. She has contributed to various newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and other publications. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. Her published books include “Selected Maria Lind Writing” (2010), “Seven Years: The Rematerialization Art from 2011 to 2017” (2019), “Konstringar: Vad gör samtidskonsten?” (2021), “Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden” (2021) and “The New Model” (2020).
